Re: Affordable PCB Layout Software ???

On 2008-07-30, Nico Coesel <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The PCB package is something I wouldn't recommend (because the
netnames are not attached to the tracks which makes it impossible to
find the source of a short circuit) altough a lot of people are happy
using it.

PCB has gotten a lot of development in the last few years. Nets certainly
are associated with wires on the board.

The learning curve of gEDA is steep, but there's a lot of power there, too.
If you are a programmer (even just moderate scripting skills) you will
appreciate the easily understood text file formats that let you do things
like generate an 1156BGA footprint without clicking 1156*n times.

One of the exciting PCB developments is a GSOC project working on a
topological autorouter for PCB. Cool animations here:

http://voodoo.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~amb33/tar/

--
Ben Jackson AD7GD
<ben@xxxxxxx>
http://www.ben.com/
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